From: Gatti Barbara Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 5:02 PM To: ISSS-WS-EC@LISTSERV.CENORM.BE Subject: e-business survey by OASIS & LISA Dear WS/EC members, on the issue of multilinguism, please find below the announcement of Global e-Business Survey jointly run by the OASIS and LISA consortia. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- New Study to Determine Impact of Multi-Lingual Technologies Geneva, Switzerland and Boston, MA, USA; 1 October 2002 -- A new survey to determine the impact of multi-lingual technologies on global e-business is the latest product of cooperation between two international organizations developing complementary standards for localization. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), together with the Localization Industry Standards Association (LISA), have produced a Global eBusiness Survey http://www.lisa.org/interact/2002/ebizsurvey.html designed to investigate the amount of activity and resources devoted to using or developing localization products. "The survey will provide insight into the needs and implementation plans of users of Web services and language processing standards," explained Michael Anobile, Managing Director of LISA. The survey is structured in two parts: The Business Process section is for managers responsible for international product, services, sales or support operations; the Localization Expert section is designed for product, Web services, development and standards professionals. "The information we collect will be very significant for managers, planners, information architects, and executives who are interested in the trends and standards that will enable them to more easily conduct global e-Business--including Web services," said Patrick Gannon, president and CEO of OASIS. Preliminary results of the survey will be presented by Gannon on 5 November at the 2002 LISA Forum Europe in Heidelberg, Germany. This survey is part of a recent series developed by LISA to measure the impact of language in business, multi-lingual content creation and the related technologies and standards. Future surveys in process by OASIS and LISA will focus on the governmental policies impacting e-Business and cross-border trading along with the evolution and adoption of global standards to meet the cultural requirements of each market. ============================================== Best regards Barbara Gatti Workshop Manager CEN/ISSS - Information Society Standardization System Rue de Stassart 36, B-1050 Brussels Web: www.cenorm.be/isss Tel.: +32 2 550 08 34 Fax: +32 2 550 09 66 E-mail: Barbara.Gatti@cenorm.be